Clothes-fastener mounting



May 1,v 1928. 1,668,519

1. H. SMITH CLOTHES FASTENER MOUNTING Filed Aug. ze. 1926 53 #f1.1- 5 L/ Y INVENTOR abe//a l 5mi/ .8h J. 777mg ATTORN Patented May l, 1928.

UNITED stares PATENT OFFICE- ISABELLA H. SMITH, OF FHILADELEHIA, PENNSYLVANEA., ASSIGNOR T GROESBECK- HEAR/N, INC., A COEYPRATGN 0F NEW YORK.

CLOTHESFASTENEP, MOUNTING.

Application. filed August 2S, 19.9.6. Serial No. 131,699.

` This invention relates ,generally to clothes fasteners, such as buttons, hooks and eyes,

Snaps, etc..y and relates more particularly to methods for securing' such fasteners to a particular type of mounting and to the article thereby produced.

It has been the practice for many years to prepareclothes fasteners, suoli as buttons for instance, for the market by loosely stitching or bastine' the required number thereof to a pieceof cardboard or strip of cloth and to then dispose of these cards or strips of buttons by retailine them at a price per card or strip Housewives have accepted this man-made? arrange` ment as being' the best obtainable without ,giving the rmatter further consideration. suffering the inconveniences and ineconomy thereof without attemptingT to devise a more satisfactory article. ,y

I have discovered that a much more satisfactory way of retailincv clothes fasteneraat least from the housewifes standpoint. is to loosely stitch or bast the clothes fasteners upon a relatively thin. flexible., transparent card or strip. The fastener mayy then be sewedy in place, upon the garment. Vdisre-` srardingthe transparent card or strip during the sewing operation` after which the strip maybe torn away from the fastener that has been secured in place` leaving the fastener in position upon the garment My invention.` therefore, includes a .transparent strip or sheet upon which are mounted `the desired number of clothes fasteners such as buttons. hooks and/or eyes snaps etc., by anysuitable means` such as by stitch,- ine: or basting. Y

My invention further includes a strip numerals refer to like parts,

upon which are mounted. a number of fas-k l is a plan view of one embodiment of my invention, and,

llip;l 2 is an enlarged section thereof, taken along` the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Figs. 3, 4t, 5 and 6 are plan views of other embodiments of my invention;

7 is a plan view, illustrating one manner in which my invention may be used, and

Fig. 8 is a plan view of a card of buttons, embodyingY my invention.

Reference character l refers generally to a relatively thin flexible or semi-flexible strip. which be made of any substantially transparent material, such as Du Pont cellophane, celluloid. cellulose or vegetable tissue, or other suitable substance, so long as it has sumcient strength to permit clothes fasteners. .such as buttons, hooks and eyes, snaps` etc.. to be stitched or basted thereto and to permit handling" of the strip before and while the fasteners are being sewed.

upon the ygarment. A non-flammable strip is of course. preferable. The strip should` however, have sufficient fragility to permit 'to he torn with comparative ease when such is intended as will be more fully hereinafter described. .To thek strip 1 are se .cured the desired type and number of fasteners in any convenientV manner, Such as by stitching or bastine the fastener to the strip in a way which in itself, is well known to those skilled in the art.

ln Figures l and 2 l have illustrated the manner in which l may secure buttons 2 to the strip l. the buttons being held in place upon the strip vbv means of bastinp; 3. Upon one edcje (or both edges. if. desired) of the strip l may be .located a .series of designations of measurement. such as the parallel lines or scale e. These may represent inches or centimeters. and fractions thereof, as may he found desirable. The buttons 2 may be secured upon the strip l as close together is conveniently possible or may be spaced such distances apart as the buttons would ordinarily be spaced when secured to the garment. lf spaced as last described` a series of two or more buttons may be sewed upon the garment in properly spaced posi tion before the strip is torn therefrom, thus making` the placing' of the buttons upon the garment, in properly spaced relation, an easy task.

In Figure 3 I have illustrated the manner in which hooks 5 and eyes G may be secured to the strip l, the hooks and eyes being secured to the strip in sets. in a way similar to that above described with respect to individual buttons. Thus the hooks and eyes may be secured te the strip in closely spaced relation or may be spaced in a manner convenient for securingv a plurality of them to the garment in definitely spacedy relation. The strip.. to which the hooks and eyes are secured, may also bear designations of measurement thereon, such the lines or scale i, it desired.

In Fig. 5 have illustrated the manner in which the male and temale members 8 and 9, respectively, oit a snap may be secured to the strip l. Spacing of the sets of snaps upon, and the Way in which they are secured to, the strip l is similar to that described With respect Yto hooks and eyes and buttons. Designations ot measurement may likewise be employed upon the strip in this embodiment.

lt may be found desirable to secure the hooks 5 upon one strip and the eyes 6 upon another, or to have the strip divided by a weakened or perforated line '7 into two portions` such as l and 1b, as illustrated in Figure it. in the latter event, all ot the hooks 5 may be secured to the portion l of the strip and all of the eyes 6 to the portion 1b of the strip. rlhe hooks may he placed opposite the eyes and spaced as heretofore described.

In a similar manner.r as illustrated in Figure 6, the male members 8 and female members 9 of snaps may be secured to the strip portions ln and lb, respectively.

Where my invention is used in the embodiment shown in Figures i and 6 the strip comprising' the portions ld and 1b, with the respective elements ot a two piece tastener securedthereto. may be sold as a unity. The housewife may then separate the strip into, its portions ln and lb, employing' each in the same manner as a single strip would be employed. i

In Fin'. 8 l have illustrated the manner in 'which clothes Afasteners may be secured to a. card. This ligure shows hon' a dozen but,- tons 2 may be secured to a transparent card l by stitching or basting as heretofore described. n this embodiment the card may be flexible or even semi-tleXible and may Y be made ot' any of the transparent materials previously mentioned. The buttons may be arranged upon the card in the manner Shown. or more of them may be mounted thereon and spaced similarly or differently. ln a similar manner` sets ot hooks and eyes or sets ot snaps may be mounted on the card l". A scale Ll. may be placed upon the edge of the card it desired. i

The manner in which my invention is used is illustrated in Figure 7 and may be as follows: Assuming that it is desired to sew a. button 2 upon a garment 11, my novel button strip is so positioned upon the garment 1l that a button Q, for instance the one at the end ot' the strip l, is located at the point Where it is desir-ed that it be seued to the garment lL the presence ot the strip l itself being disregarded. rlhe strip l beingl transparent the operator can easily locate the button 2 in its eXactposition upon the garment 1l, giving' no thought to the strip other than the pleasant thought that a. convenient supply of buttons is always at hand. The button is then seived securely in place by means, for instance, ot the threads 12.` The strip lg carrying` the remaining buttons, may then be torn a-Way from that part of the strip bearing the button which has just been secured to the garment, lor instance as shown at 13. rllhe portion of the. strip clinging` to ythe button which has been secured to the `garment may then be easily removed therefrom by pulling itaway. In a similar manner the entire strip 1. by one operation, may be pulled trom the butto'n which has been secured to the garment.

It' it is desired to secure a plurality of buttons to the `rai-ment. in predetermined spaced relation, the desired number of buttons properly spaced upon the strip l may be seived to the garment and the strip l then pulled away from the buttons which have been secured to the garment.

In a manner similar to that described above :in connection with buttons, I may likewise make use of the hook and eye strips illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 0r the snap strips7 illustrated in Figures 5 and 6,

the principal Y diierence, of course, being that there are two elements in a set in place of one button. Each element, such as a hook 5 or an eye 6 would be sevved in place in a manner similar to that in which aA button is sewed in. place as describedl above. In using the embodiments shown in Figures 4t and 6 the portions la and 1b may be separated before sewing or after each element 5' or 6 is sewed in place. i

The button card illustrated in Fig. 8 may be used in a manner very similar to that described with respect to butt-0n strips of Fig. 1. i

The designations of measurement or scale 4 upon the edge ot the strip 1 or cardl 1 may be used independently as a measuring implement, so long as an appreciable part of the strip 1 remains. The scale 4 will' also serve to indicate at all times the distance that the fasteners are spaced apart.

It is obvious that. many and varied details of construction may be resorted tovr by those skilled in the art and I do not intend to limit myself by the description set forth above. For instance the strip 1 above referred to may be a strip of any desired lengt-h or Width so long as it is not too bulky. The strip may be a few thousandths of an inch in thickness or may be of such thicka ness as to be only semi-flexible.`

I may use any material available for the strip l so long as it has sufficient transparency for the operator thereof to readily determine the position of the fastener upon the garment. Thin oiled paper might even be as satisfactory in some instances as the materials already mentioned. I may even use a. strip which iS soluble in water so that the strip need not be removed from the garment manually but may be dissolved therefrom by washing the garment.

The advantages of my invention will be observed from the above description to be numerous, principal of which are that the operator alwayshasa convenient supply of fasteners at hand, that the fasteners can be exactly located upon the garment due to the transparency of the strip l and that a number of fasteners may be secured to a garment in predetermined spaced relation.

In the claims, the term strip is intended to include a short wide strip orcard as Well.

as a long narrow tape-like one; the term exible includes semi-flexible as well as flexible, the term transparent includes all material having sufficient transparency for an operator to ascertain the position of a garment therethrough, the term clothes fastener includes buttons, hooks .and eyes, snaps and all other similar devices either singly or in sets, each set such as t-he hooks and eyes and the snaps being composed of a male and female element and the term thread-eye refers to the openings in the clothes fastener through which threads may pass to secure the Vfastener to t-he garment.

I claim:

l. An article of manufacture comprising a strip of transparent material and clothes fasteners secured thereto and residing entirely between the edges of said strip.

2. An article of manufacture comprising a strip of thin transparent material having clothes fasteners with thread eyes secured thereto by securing means at' least a part of which passes through threadeyes in the fasteners.

8. An article of manufacture comprising a strip of transparent material having secured thereto clothes fasteners with threadeyes, at least the thread-eyes of said fasteners residing between the edges of said strip. y

4. The method of securing clothes fasteners Wit-h thread-eyes therein to a garment which comprises mounting said fasteners upon ak transparent strip with at least the thread-eyes of said fasteners within the edges of said strip, sewing lthe fastener to the garment with the strip intervening and then tearing the strip from the fastener and garment.

5. An article of manufacture comprising a strip of transparent material and clothes fasteners secured thereto, those parts of the fasteners which are to be secured to a garment residing within the edges of the strip.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ISABELLA H. SMITH. 

